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DD303 Language Processing

Ken Adams DD303 Cognitive Psychology undergraduate Englisch 20 Karten

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  1. 1What are the main differences between spoken & written word recognition?Spoken:
    >Some aspects innate
    >Primary
    >Need to segment words
    >Extended in time but each word exists only briefly
    Written:
    >Learned (but likely we use mechanisms for spoken lang recognition)
    >Secondary
    >Segmentation is done by white space on page
    >Extended in space but words are permanent
    Suggests, different models needed to explain each
  2. 2Segmenting spoken words - 2 methods?Pre-lexical (bottom-up):
    >Characteristics indicate boundary
    >English - stressed 1st syllable - Cutler & Carter
    >Different for other languages
    >Cutler & Norris - word spot task, embedded in nonsense syllables
    >BUT must be alternative for words that break rules (eg guitar, yacht)
    Lexical models (top-down):
    >Phonological representation (knowledge of what word sounds like)
    >Recognise each word & predict boundary
    >Match sounds against store (mental lexicon)
    >Marslen-Wilson & Welsh - problems w/ short words?
  3. 3Saffran et al (1996)?>Babies - head turning experiment
    >Artificial language
    >Id words in 2 mins
    >Suggests implicit learning ability via co-occurrence of syllables & statistical properties
  4. 4Parallel activation in spoken word recognition?Simultaneous hearing & evaluation
    Content processed before end of word
    Marslen-Wilson et al ('78 & '87) - Cohort model
    Word start - initial cohort
    Word continues - list of matches reduces
    Single word recognised - uniqueness point
    Cross modal priming & semantic similarity
    Gaskell & Marslen-Wilson ('02) - # words simultaneously activated limited; suggests priming effect weakens
  5. 5Lexical competition - connectionist modelseg TRACE - McCelland & Elman
    3 levels - 1) Phonetic features;
    2) Phonemes; 3) Word
    Activation - bottom-up - nodes representing phonemes activated when hear a word
    When all phonemes for a word are activated, activation spreads to the word
    Amount depends on closeness of match
    Phonemes c, o, en, f = "confess" & "confetti"
    Inhibition @ word level = competitive part of model
    Support - McQueen et al ('84) - segmentation via word spotting
  6. 6Visual word recognition - IAC modelMcClelland & Rumelhart ('81)
    Top-down
    3 levels: 1) visual features; 2) letters;
    3) words
    Explains word superiority effect (letters recognised faster if in string ie word)
    BUT effect can be explained with no top-down feedback using spelling representations in mental lexicon (Grainger & Jacobs '94)
    Top-down feedback needed for word recognition? = Contentious
  7. 7Interaction of spoken & written words - DRC modelColtheart et al ('01)
    Dual Route Cascade Model
    Assembled (rule-based, regular words) vs addressed (lexical, irregular words) phonology
    Speed of written word naming = assess which route used
    Regular faster than irregular (only low frequency)
    Regular use either route, irregular only one route - gives advantage for regular words
    Phonology important even in silent reading (e.g. rose, rows) (Van Orden, 1987)
    Glushko ('79) neighbouring word properties impact recognition rate - eg save, wave, gave - have
    BUT : Jared ('02) - word naming times affected much more by consistency than regularity
  8. 8Eye movements in readingActive - coordinated
    Saccades
    Fixations - 200ms (dependent on word frequency - Rayner & Duffy)
    O'Regan & Jacobs - recognise words faster @ optimal viewing position - mid-word
    Shillock et al - info content greatest mid-word; less info at word ending
    ~10% saccades backwards - more with low predictability/ambiguity
    Text is present 'ahead' as well as 'before' - parallel process?
    Flanker effect = yes; normal reading evidence = no
  9. 9What is the mental lexicon?Store
    Semantic r'ships - how meanings related
    Semantic content - meaning
    Phonological
    Orthographic
  10. 10Morphology?Size of units in lexicon
    Morpheme - smallest meaningful sub-unit
    Inflections - plural; tense (-ed, -ing)
    Derivations - change word type (weak>weakly=adjective>verb)
    Irregular forms - mouse>mice
    Share morphemes - depart, department = unrelated
    2 cognitive approaches:
    Full-listing: all words stored in entirety
    Decompositional: Taft & Forster - words broken into morphemes & stored w/ links
    Support:Marslen-Wilson et al ('94) - words w/ same morpheme prime strongly; faster processing prime & target
    Related meanings (cruel>cruelty) NOT shared prefix (casual>casualty)
  11. 11Accessing Meaning - Semantic Representations?Type of info accessed when word recognised?
    Spreading activation models (eg Collins & Loftus) - Connectionist: links = semantic r'ship; meanings related
    Vs
    Featural theories - meanings=set of concepts stored in Lexicon
    (Both models poorly specified & data can often be interpreted to fit either)
  12. 12Semantic priming?Semantic priming experiments: e.g. bread>butter, cheddar>cheese
    Associative links between prime & target
    Lucas ('00) - Non associative (e.g. horse and sheep, much weaker link & data robust)
    BUT evidence different visual & perceptual properties resulting in some degree of priming (e.g. size/shape)
  13. 13Semantic ambiguity?Homonyms (e.g. bank – river vs money)
    Context allows selection of appropriate meaning, but how?
    >Autonomous (all meanings accessed then select contextually appropriate one)
    >Interactive (context rules out some meanings before they are fully activated)
    >Swinney ('79) supported autonomous model - Regardless of bias, both possible words primed; BUT if delay (1 sec) between stimuli, contextually appropriate word primed
    >Lucas ('99) supported interactive model - more priming re appropriate meanings then inappropriate
  14. 14Processing sentences?Sentences are novel
    Implies process has to be constructive, rather than just recognition
    Parsing = deciding each word’s syntactic (grammatical) role in the sentence to understand the sentence
  15. 15Incremental model of parsing?Syntactic structure built incrementally as each word encountered
    Most evidence for this one
    Tyler & Marslen-Wilson ('77)
    Ambiguous phrase "landing planes"
    Preceding context determines if landing = adjective or verb
    Speed of response dependent on prior context
    Supports incremental parsing
    Incompatible with delayed model - it wouldn't predict an effect of appropriateness, as waiting to the end of the sentence, to parse
  16. 16Garden path model of parsing?"The horse raced past the barn fell"
    Fraizer ('79)
    Influential
    >Incremental & autonomous
    >Misinterpretations constantly corrected
    >Listener might be ‘led down the garden path’
    >Serial model – parser makes only one potential parse at a time
    >Parsing based on info from sentence itself, not context (syntactic info only)
  17. 17Constraint-based models of parsing?MacDonald et al ('94)
    Parsing = parallel & interactive
    Multiple interpretations evaluated in parallel
    No autonomous component
    Info from lexicon added during evaluation process
    Evidence:
    Multiple meanings of ambiguous words briefly activated
    Frequency of meanings (in the language) determines activations of alternatives
    Biasing contexts increases activation of an alternative
  18. 18Is parsing autonomous?For:
    Ferreira & Clifton ('86) - eye-tracking re verb in "Defendant examined..." - garden path effect found
    Against:
    Trueswell et al - garden path sentences could be affected by meaning: same contexts as F&C not as constraining as their example
    Parsing can be affected by semantic plausibility of various parses of the system
  19. 19Constraints on parsing?Ambiguity reduced by intonation - listeners use this (Warren)
    Tannenhaus et al ('95)
    "Put the apple on the towel in the box”
    environmental info used to resolve ambiguity & reduce/remove garden path effect
  20. 20Starr & Rayner ('01) - key points?>Eye movements in reading claimed to reflect high level cognitive processes
    >Studies showing effects of parafoveal (right of fixation) info uptake support models of parallel processing in reading.
    >Challenges serial spotlight models of attention in reading
    >Frequency & predictability effects on fixation times suggest top-down cognitive influences of lexical & comprehension processes
    >Supports models of integrated & parallel processing (MacDonald et al '94)

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